Regarding what Andreas said and what Alex +1ed, we already have precedent. We already argued through this precedent in committee and agreed. I like David's suggestion about how to organize these tests.
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Alex Russell <slightly...@google.com>wrote: > +1. What Andreas said. > > > On Friday, December 14, 2012, Andreas Rossberg wrote: > >> On 13 December 2012 19:21, Mark S. Miller <erig...@google.com> wrote: >> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:12 AM, David Bruant <bruan...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> As you say, to remain viable, it >> >>> must be done quickly. From previous experience, I suggest that there's >> >>> exactly one way to get quick universal deployment: add a test to >> >>> test262 that fails when a browser's WindowProxy object violates this >> >>> normative part of the ES5 spec. >> >> >> >> I feel such a test would rather belong to the HTML DOM. But either >> way, I >> >> agree. >> > >> > The spec that it violates is ES5.1. Therefore it will be >> > uncontroversial to put such tests into test262. >> >> I have to strongly disagree here. By this argument, we could put in a >> test for any JS extension in the world that potentially violates >> proper ES semantics. I think test262 should test ECMA-262, nothing >> else. >> >> In particular, consider that test262 currently is a headless test, >> i.e. no browser needed, a shell like d8 or jsc is enough to run it. >> Putting in browser-specific tests would put a _huge_ burden on all >> kinds of automated testing environments running this suite. >> >> /Andreas >> _______________________________________________ >> es-discuss mailing list >> es-discuss@mozilla.org >> https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > > -- Text by me above is hereby placed in the public domain Cheers, --MarkM
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